tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305944252024-03-23T14:30:22.585-04:00Lexidiem<b>Lexidiem</b>. <i>n. sing.</i> lek-si'-dee-im. 1. Word of the day. [Modern American English, from Greek <i>lexis</i> (word) and Latin <i>diem</i> (day), reflecting the hodgepodge of roots that make up Modern American English words].JargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-1162607877359954492010-01-29T16:00:00.001-05:002010-01-29T16:20:28.579-05:00Googled: somewhat predictable, quite fascinatingKen Auletta's new book Googled takes us for a fascinating look behind the scene as he shows us the growth of Google from its simple beginnings within the labs of Stanford University to its becoming what is perhaps the most influential technology company in Silicon Valley today. Author Auletta is a technology journalist and media critic for the The New Yorker, and was one of the first to JargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-44916947139497538772010-01-04T11:53:00.000-05:002010-01-26T11:54:25.989-05:00Can you change the world?Is it actually possible to change the world? Can you make it a better place? Or is this just an overly Utopian idea? We all complain, but in fact most of us have it pretty easy. True, there are rough spots along the way; it happens to all of us. But why not help out someone who's going through a temporary difficulty? The video below is a trailer for the film Pay It Forward, starring Kevin JargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-13189032884803831392009-09-11T15:43:00.000-04:002010-01-26T14:46:44.314-05:00The Trip and the Promise(Originally published in October 2001) It was more than the typical Sunday drive, but since it was for the christening of some friends' young daughter, we didn't mind it. We left a bit early, but when driving anywhere around New York City, it seems like early is never enough. My son, a five-year-old and a well-seasoned traveler, was situated comfortably in his car seat, looking forward to the JargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-8604721743669654002009-08-08T21:07:00.000-04:002010-01-26T15:09:37.960-05:00Actors Studio QuestionsIf you've ever watched “Inside the Actors Studio,” you've seen James Lipton ask the same 10 questions to each actor at the end of the show. This was tossed at me by a friend, so I responded. If you want to try, then copy the questions and replace my answers with yours. Enjoy! What is your favorite word? Verbivore. What is your least favorite word? Smarmy. What turns you onJargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-55166142001240659242009-03-28T01:03:00.001-04:002009-03-28T01:55:01.435-04:00ChangeChange is interesting, and it’s often a good thing… The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~ Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock and The Third Wave  There is nothing permanent except change. ~ Heraclitus (535-475 BCE.) It’s hard to argue with either of those thoughts. More JargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-647800451596991352008-11-04T14:58:00.001-05:002008-11-04T14:58:09.282-05:00I'm a Conservative...As a Conservative, I'm voting for... ... the one man who has the necessary character to do the job, to take on the responsibilities of the office of the 44th President of the United States. As an American citizen, I would like to say that voters should pay less attention to a candidate's party and more to what they are saying and doing. Our first president, George Washington, warned against JargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-81173722424850215202008-02-14T22:48:00.000-05:002008-02-16T18:07:14.238-05:00Happy Valentine's Day... Busted!Love is in the air... PHILADELPHIA Feb 14, 2008 ― The Philadelphia Sheriff's Office showed their love and support for victims of domestic violence during an early morning Valentine's Day roundup Thursday. Sheriff's deputies led an early morning sweep in the pre-dawn hours to capture wanted domestic abuse as well as child support offenders. In 2007, there were 109 domestic abuse warrants issuedJargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-41412745466359976392007-12-30T23:56:00.000-05:002007-12-31T03:07:22.081-05:00Best Present of All...This was my best Christmas present! There are many kinds of presents that one can receive over the holidays, and I'll touch on this in a journal later, but the best present that I received this year was the look on my son's face when he opened his "big present" from me this year, one that he had really wanted. He had already received a bunch of presents, including a very cool JargonTalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175462071956276019noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-45590938507086962972007-12-24T13:46:00.001-05:002007-12-24T13:46:18.242-05:00Have a Splendid Holiday! Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Afrikaans - Geseende Kerfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar Albanian - Gëzuar Krishlindjet Vitin e Ri! Aleut - Kamgan Ukudigaa Alsatian - E gueti Wïnâchte & E glecklichs Nej Johr! Andalusian - Felíce Pahjcua y Felí Año, or Felí Navidá y Próhjpero Año Nuevo Apache (Western) - Gozhqq Keshmish Arabic - I'D Miilad Said ous Sana Saida Aramaic RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-91864100573504295272007-12-17T21:26:00.001-05:002007-12-17T21:26:47.185-05:00Happy Christmas!This is a still from my new Happy Christmas video, just in time for the holidays. I've been secretly taking singing and performing lessons from the new British Ska group Tygorz, which is headed by none other than British music and animation legend Joel Veitch, and backed up by his band 7 Seconds of Love, along with the world-famous Ninja Kittens! They're even trying to teach me the proper RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-68118324392869710542007-12-11T21:19:00.000-05:002007-12-17T21:21:04.703-05:00PETA Protesting Tila Tequila?In the News... Hollywood – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Monday announced that it is protesting and calling for a boycott of bisexual MySpace star Tila Tequila’s reality show on MTV, where she will pick a suitor from ten men and ten women. “The exclusion of animals from this show is outrageous and offensive,” said PETA spokesperson Ashley Keighley. “We won’t stand for this RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-41915923350216101642007-11-30T20:06:00.000-05:002007-12-17T20:08:50.581-05:00PETA BurgersOld News Rehashed Department: PETA Tries to Get Hamburg, NY, to Change Its Name Note: This originally appeared in another one of my sites in 2003. Since PETA has been back in the news so much of late, it was worthwhile to take a look backward and compare their recent actions with some of their older efforts to "save the animals." You be the judge. HAMBURG, NY - The national animal rights group RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-86403900254107118392007-08-12T17:03:00.001-04:002007-08-12T17:03:02.471-04:00The 50 Greatest Lies of the New Millennium"I promise that I wont..." There have been many lists of lies that have been circulated around for years. People used to receive shorter versions on their fax machines, then with the advent of computers in the late 1900s, the lists began to grow. But now were in the new millennium, so perhaps it's time once again to update that list. Here is our humble offering of the 50 Greatest Lies of the RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-50812376462755092052007-07-30T22:45:00.001-04:002007-08-02T17:34:27.588-04:00Harry Potter and the Zigzag QuestMy own case of Pottermania struck very late when I found that my son would not be getting his copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the night it was released as previously expected. My son was on vacation with relatives and due to start summer camp over the weekend, and suddenly all of the plans to get our copy on its US release date had fallen through, for a wide variety of unplanned RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-56443331671971943032007-07-14T16:05:00.001-04:002007-08-02T17:34:46.841-04:00Ducking Out...There are times when each of us needs to kick back, to take a short break, if only to recharge our batteries. That's exactly what I'm doing, taking a short break. My son is away for summer camp, so the timing is ideal. Going to catch up with a friend or two, since that's a bit overdue. Might luxuriate and sleep in some mornings, possibly get out and shoot a few photos. Now I know that RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-56404050154390159322007-05-31T02:26:00.001-04:002007-08-02T17:34:46.842-04:00Rosie Sez... A Message From Rosie Rosie O'Donnell has quit her job as moderator of The View after a vicious war of words with Elizabeth Hasselbeck hit the headlines last week. She clashed with her co-host on last Wednesday's program after the pair fell out over their political views, and she has not returned to the daytime show since.She told fans she didn't know when she'd be back in a posting on her blog RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-16988105289555561512007-05-27T13:36:00.001-04:002007-08-02T17:34:46.843-04:00Barbie, what have you done! The Flavor of a Favor Barbie Cummings doesn't see what all the fuss is about.Trooper James Randy Moss of the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) was just doing his job when he observed a pink Honda Accord speeding outside of Nashville on May 7th. He clocked her doing 92 mph in a 70 mph zone near Lebanon, so doing his duty, he pulled her over.Since she was speeding, Trooper Moss felt it necessary to RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-20217037257835476622007-01-10T15:17:00.001-05:002007-08-02T17:34:46.844-04:00Apple, Inc.Live from Macworld 2007... As expected, Apple and Steve Jobs did a great job of promotion and presentation. You can read all about that here. There was an item of extreme interest in Steve Jobs' keynote worth bringing up... 10:58am: "So, today we've added to the Mac and the iPod, we've added Apple TV, and now iPhone. And you know, the Mac is the only one you really think of RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-37653800524424091702006-12-31T21:07:00.000-05:002007-08-02T17:34:46.845-04:00Happy 2007...Happy New Year 2007! New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.~ Mark Twain I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.~ Anais Nin One resolution I have made, and try RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-1159364824299589222006-09-27T09:47:00.000-04:002007-08-02T17:34:46.846-04:00Bush Administration: an 'F' for Reading ProgramOIG Review Questions Ethics in Reading First Program The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a scathing audit, an internal review of the Bush administration's billion-dollar-a-year Reading First program. The report says that the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted. State educational agencies have received over $4.8 billion in RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-1158218513514182872006-09-14T03:21:00.000-04:002007-08-02T17:34:46.847-04:00Kids' Books for Our New AgeBooks for young children seem to be changing.Books for kids are changing, and bedtime stories aren't about little bears, frogs that get kissed or magic dragons. Here's a new title: Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! Before you go any further, take a close look at the characters and items illustrated on the book's cover. You can see a larger version here. The publishers state: "This RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-1158006957007301122006-09-11T16:35:00.000-04:002007-08-02T17:34:46.848-04:00A 9/11 Tribute to LTJG Darin H. Pontel, USNThis 2,996 Tribute is dedicated to Darin Howard Pontell When Darin Pontell was 14, he decided that he would join the Navy. His older brother Steven was a Navy pilot, and he was killed in a crash on the USS Lexington off Pensacola, Florida in 1989. "When that happened, Darin mentioned that he'd like to pick up where his brother Steven left off, to complete the circle," his father, Gary Pontell, RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-1157721349289050742006-09-08T09:15:00.000-04:002007-08-02T17:34:46.849-04:00Barbaro Burgers? Not this week!Those hungry for horsemeat won't get their wish this weekOn Thursday the House of Representatives passed H.R. 503, the bill that bans horse slaughter in the United State. The bill passed by a vote of 263 to 146, despite amendments submitted by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte to weaken the measure. The issue was simple: about 90,000 horses are sent each year to three plants in RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-1157489554418475632006-09-05T16:52:00.000-04:002007-08-02T16:47:13.491-04:00Barbaro Burgers Legal after Thursday?Those hungry for horsemeat may get their wish this weekJust check out these 9/7/2006 headlines, and read this in the text:One fast food franchise has already applied for the name "Barbaro Burgers" as a trademark, and expects to be selling horse burgers before November 1st. Horrifying, isn't it? OK, this is a fictitious copy of a fictitious newspaper. 2006 Kentucky Derby Winner Barbaro is not RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30594425.post-1157053924541274662006-08-31T15:52:00.000-04:002007-08-02T16:49:02.837-04:00You've got mail! You've been e-Fired!RadioShack terminates 400+ people via e-mailWhat's going on here? RadioShack had announced earlier this month that they were going to trim some 400 to 450 jobs, so any news regarding this should have been expected. But what wasn't expected was the way they went about notifying the employees who were being terminated. Employees who were effected by this round of layoffs at RadioShack's Fort Worth RTFMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07249751635419251066noreply@blogger.com3